Fight may renew over Woodland Park's name change from West Paterson

The fight over the name of one New Jersey town may be starting up again. West Paterson voters narrowly passed a referendum last November to change the Passaic County town's name to Woodland Park, and the new name took effect on New Year's Day.

But some supporters of the name change now claim borough officials are secretly supporting a grass roots campaign to hold a new referendum that, if approved, would revert the name back to West Paterson.

Among the reasons cited by Woodland Park supporters is that many signs in town haven't been updated with the new name. They claim that's a "de-facto endorsement" by town officials of the "Save West Paterson" group.

Councilman Keith Kazmark said borough officials decided to gradually implement the name change, citing the large expense of making all necessary changes at once.